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Re: [Slib-discuss] SLIB as R7RS libraries


From: Aubrey Jaffer
Subject: Re: [Slib-discuss] SLIB as R7RS libraries
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:42:41 -0400

Does it make sense to put your port into the SLIB distribution, or is
there an established package format for distributing r7rs-libs?

SLIB is mature at this point and I could coordinate with you for future
releases.

Peter Lane <address@hidden> writes:

 | Over the last few weeks, I have been converting SLIB code into
 | libraries to import into and run under R7RS Scheme
 | implementations. The major change is that, instead of using SLIB's
 | (require 'name) we can use (import (slib name)), making each package
 | a standard R7RS library.
>
 | I have translated the majority of the files.  Out of the 159 files in
 | SLIB 3b5, I have ended up with 91 libraries.  Out of those not
 | converted, 15 are now available as SRFIs (e.g. the important "arrays"
 | package is srfi 63).  The 57 remaining either now have their
 | functionality covered in R7RS itself, or I decided not to convert at
 | this time - there is no define-macro, for example.
...
 | I hope this will be of interest to current or potential users of SLIB.



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